Not only is Kelly Howell one of the most acclaimed trailblazers in the emerging field of sound healing, she also has one of the most legitimately sexy, imperious voices around. When she instructs you to "gently lead your mind back each time to the simple awareness of your breath," it's both a request and a loving command you find yourself unusually willing to follow. There's something gently, almost mystically authoritative, in her voice, and it's riveting, as if a loving electric hand is tightly gripping the back of your neck. With the deeply hypnotic pulses vibrating behind her, Howell draws you deeper and further forward into a soft, warm enhanced sense of self. Howell's Healing Meditation leads you into the calm meadows of the inner self, introduces you to all the energies and joys that are yours and always have been, and shows you the way to manifest your heart's desires and needs.

"The healing process is creative; it provides us with the opportunity to make deep personal changes," Howell notes. The mission here is to attract your own deeper resonance, to entrain your magnetic waves to a higher level. "You feel life begin to flow again" she notes and, on a more scientific level, explains how our unconscious translates our thoughts into mutable biochemistry. In other words: "We can consciously control our health." As the music drones she gently instructs us to "take a moment to reconnect with the depths of your own being," introducing us to "tactile sensations of birds, sunshine, and a private sanctuary surrounded by glowing marble columns." Then, she starts speaking different things, overlapping in each speaker, and if you weren't deeply rooted and floating by then Howell makes sure you are now.

The second track begins with a short spoken intro before sinking into instrumental music, rich drones with subliminal messages; great warm rushes of synthesizer chords suspend in the air and vibrate until higher pitched tones slowly emerge from the drone, like sunshine peaking through heavy purple clouds. It's that sunshine you're heading into as you work with Howell's startlingly effective music, for Healing Meditations works at your deepest, most hidden levels of consciousness, even if you're barely paying attention. All you have to do is resist the urge to stop yourself from letting go; refrain from "snapping out of it" and you might find yourself floating into the light of a more integrated, blissful existence.